Month: October 2010

A common method for displaying a long list of products shows thumbnails arranged in rows and columns. It’s pretty easy to do if you hand code each item in each row and column. But what if you want to use a variable number of columns and products, like using the Yahoo! store Columns variable and the Specials homepage variable? This example demonstrates a Yahoo! store template which outputs the thumbnail, name and sale-price of a sequence of IDs in rows and columns using <DIV> tags. The sequence and number of columns are passed to the template. It will also check for the presence of and icon or image in the product and render a global “blank-image” image with name if there are none. Continue reading “Column Display of Multiple IDs in RTML”